On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 06:04:24PM -1000, david wrote: > On 02/16/2013 05:10 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > >Of course, if you were running a truly minimum desktop, you don't even > >need synaptic because apt-get is installed anyway. > > I find synaptic a much-easier way to manage packages than the > cryptic command lines of apt-get or dpkg. For instance, I can easily > see what a particular package recommends and decide if I want to > also include one or more the recommendations. That what "apt-cache policy <pkgname>", and "apt-cache show <pkgname>" are for. I don't see how you can call the command lines crptic! Also my comment was just pointing out that if you have synaptic installed you can't honestly claim that you have a "truly minimum desktop" -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
